and when that happens, a lot of folks forget that most of us used to be them. we forget that. [applause] unless you are one of the first americans, a native american, you came from somewhere else. somebody brought you. [applause] he is of mexican-american descent but people live with he lived for four engineers. he did not emigrate anywhere. the irish, the germans who fled persecution, the scandinavian is who arrived eagerly, a polish, the russian, the italian, the chinese, the japanese, the west indians, the huddled masses that came through to ellis island. [applause] all those folks, before they were us, they were them. when its new wave of immigrants arrived, they faced resistance from those already here. they faced hardship. they faced racism. they faced ridicule. over time, they went about their daily lives. they earned a living. they raised a family. they built a community. their children went to school year. they did their part to build the nation. they were the einstein's, the carnegies, and the millions of men and women whose names we do not remember but whose actions